BIOENERGY FOR EUROPE: WHICH ONES FIT BEST?
BIOENERGY FOR EUROPE: WHICH ONES FIT BEST?
BIOENERGY FOR EUROPE: WHICH ONES FIT BEST?
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164 7 Annex<br />
7.2.7 ETBE from sugar beet versus fossil MTBE for transportation:<br />
relative impact differences between biofuels and fossil fuels<br />
200%<br />
100%<br />
0%<br />
-100%<br />
Use of fossil fuels<br />
Greenhouse effect<br />
How to interpret the diagram<br />
Ozone Depletion by N2O<br />
Acidification<br />
Eutrophication<br />
Summer smog<br />
Human toxicity<br />
France<br />
Germany<br />
Netherlands<br />
Europe<br />
Environmental advantages and disadvantages of ETBE compared to MTBE for each country involved<br />
as well as for Europe are shown by relative differences between the biofuels and the fossil fuel: (biofuel<br />
– fossil fuel) / fossil fuel. The zero line indicates the level for fossil fuels. Therefore negative values<br />
indicate advantages for ETBE and positive ones represent advantages for MTBE. For example, assuming<br />
the production and combustion of fossil fuel causes an emission of 1 kg of N2O (Ozone depletion),<br />
then a value of -100 % means no net N2O emissions in the case of the biofuel, 0 % means 1 kg N2O<br />
(i.e. the same as the fossil fuel), 100 % means 2 kg N2O and so on.<br />
Remarks and conclusions<br />
For the categories use of fossil fuels and greenhouse effect all country results are very close. Especially<br />
regarding eutrophication there are much greater differences. For eutrophication Germany stands out<br />
with an exceptionally high impact by using the defaults from the data collection guideline for nitrate<br />
emissions to water; for the Netherlands a more complex model was used which gave higher nitrate<br />
emissions from fallow than from the crop. Most of the other differences are rather small and to be regarded<br />
as less significant.